Setting Internal Headers on my new Motherboard

[racketboy]

man! how long is memtest supposed to take on 1GB or RAM?

On the readme the test example was a Celeron-366 with 64MB of SDRAM.

test 2 took 00:01:02.

My 2.4Ghz with 1GB has taken a half hour so far just for test 2.

Is this normal?

It won't respond to my keyboard commands.

Does this thing freeze up?

 

[racketboy]

Ok I turned off the system and started it back up.

This time it shows the progress on test 2 to be at 3%.

Last time I believe it was stuck at %1 before reboot.

It seems to be stuck again.

What's wrong?

 

[racketboy]

update: I tried testing each stick of 512MBs by itself. Still pretty much get the same results

 

[Scared0o0Rabbit]

mem tests take a LONG time, just let it sit.

 

[racketboy]

alright -- if you say so

they should have more times listed on the readme

 

[Scared0o0Rabbit]

I've seen them run for hours.

 

[ExCyber]

AFAIK it should be responding to keyboard commands. It's possible that it offends your chipset's sensibilities.

 

[Scared0o0Rabbit]

What brand mem?

 

[racketboy]

good ol Crucial

it won't get past 3% on step 2

 

[Scared0o0Rabbit]

You're not accidently ocing or anything like that right? Like all your multipliers are set correctly and all, right?

 

[racketboy]

I got it configuration mode and went straight to step 3 -- seems to move fine now.

Wonder why step 2 wasn't friendly

Here's what step 2 is FYI:

Test 2 [Address test, own address, no cache]

Each address is written with its own address and then is checked

for consistency. In theory previous tests should have caught any

memory addressing problems. This test should catch any addressing

errors that somehow were not previously detected.

 

[racketboy]

Originally posted by Scared0o0Rabbit@Sep 9, 2003 @ 02:37 AM

You're not accidently ocing or anything like that right? Like all your multipliers are set correctly and all, right?

how would I do that?

I didn't mess with any settings

 

[Scared0o0Rabbit]

That may be your problem ^_^. Check your bios, make sure that you have all your multipliers set right. And make sure the fsb speed is set right.

 

[racketboy]

Originally posted by Scared0o0Rabbit@Sep 9, 2003 @ 02:43 AM

That may be your problem ^_^. Check your bios, make sure that you have all your multipliers set right. And make sure the fsb speed is set right.

what should they be?

the CPU and FSB speed are correct in the BIOS.

ANy other settings?

 

[racketboy]

it went through test 3 about 4 times -- no errors.

then I ran test 4 -- went 6 times no errors -- then froze on 7th pass

 

[racketboy]

any replies about the memtest problem can go here:

http://www.phantasy-star-universe.com/foru...ST&f=10&t=10339

thanks!